Re: One thing I don'tmiss...

[Guest guest]

Mike,

I also have an oncologist, for tumours that my body tends to grow,

and have found that they are the best for pain control. I guess it

is because of their specialty, they deal with chronically pained

patients due to their cancers. My oncologist is willing to look

after me for my pancreatitis spells also, which I am glad about.

Probably because the last few years of it were caused by a stricture

from surgery I had in 2001. He was the surgeon, but the stricture

was caused by excess scar tissue my body has a tendency to make. I

have no problem asking for any meds that help me better when I am

under this doctor's care. (His residents are a different matter).

And most times, if I ask them to ask my surgical oncologist when the

residents um and arr about me having increases or other meds to help

me with my nausea or side effects of the medicines, he usually tells

them to go ahead.

As for going to the ER, I feel that they will look and treat me

badly if I start off with..I need Dilaudid, for Demerol and Morphine

don't help with the pain any more. One doctor found a combination

that worked for me, yet there are many doctors who don't like to

accomodate that.

I do carry a letter around with me now from my family doctor,

stating that my condition is serious and the best pain meds for me

and that i am not a drug seeker. After I got it from her, as fates

would have it I haven't had the need to use it yet. Will see if it

works if I do have to use it.

I had one resident who didn't even want to give me benedryl to help

with the itching and nausea I was experiencing. Yet another

oncologist I saw before he left for another state had no qualms

whatsoever with Benedryl. Better than Phenergan in my books.

[Guest guest]

I also have a few letters with me, one from the oncologist(sp?) and

one from my family doctor whom I get the pain meds from, but since my

hospitals records are all digitalized, once they look me up I have no

troubles anymore. I too had a stricture in my pancreas duct, it

wasn't found for a year so the tail end kinda ate itself,lol, so it

got removed(over half total) with the spleen and gall bladder,

surgoen called it a blue-plate special sugery, 3 for the price of

one. Funny thing nobody ever figured out with me was my CP caused by

the stricture, or was the stricture cause by having CP first, then

what caused the CP to begin with. Its like the chicken and the egg,

which came first. I'm an idiot they said, or idiopathic,lol, both

could be true my wife says. Anyone else name their pancreas? Mine

is Ed. Ed doesn't play well with others.

Mike